Installation instructions

First, download the war file, here.

You can deploy this war file in any web container, such as Tomcat or Jetty.

There is really not much to it. That's it! Just go to localhost:8080 (or the port that your web container is configured to listen to) and enjoy the application.

Documentation

There is a document describing the sample application. You can download it here.

Check out the event store

The sample application uses an in-memory hsqldb to store query data. The event store is located on disk, and is placed in the temporary folder (java.io.tmpdir). Some web containers define their own tmp dir, for example under [tomcat_install_dir]/temp. In that folder, you'll see a Contact folder. Each file in there represents a contact aggregate. Each line inside the file (you can open it using any test editor you like) contains an XML representation of an event.

If you have any questions, feel free to post them on the Axon Users Mailinglist. See http://www.axonframework.org/group.

Check out the power of ubiquitous events

With the Axon Framework, events are available in all corners of your application. Since the sample uses a rich client, it is configured to listen to events, too. Open up two browser windows with the application. Add a contact in one, and watch the other window. It will update instantaneously.

See how it's done

You probably want to see how stuff is done. You can check out the sample code using your subversion client from the following address:

Trunk: http://axonframework.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sample/addressbook/

This version's code: http://axonframework.googlecode.com/svn/branches/axon-0.7/sample/addressbook/

You can also browse the sources.

If you want to build the Flex Client yourself using maven, make sure that you have the FLEX_HOME environment variable pointed to your Adobe Flex SDK installation. Otherwise, the project will build without the Flex UI.